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uxoricides

uxoricides is the plural of uxoricide.

Meaning of uxoricide

Noun (1)

uxoricide (plural uxoricides)

  1. One who murders one's wife.

Noun (2)

uxoricide (countable and uncountable, plural uxoricides)

  1. The murdering of one's own wife.
    • Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group...

Questions about uxoricides

What is uxoricides the plural of?
Uxoricides is the plural of uxoricide.

Words near uxoricides in the dictionary

  1. uxorial
  2. uxoriality
  3. uxorially
  4. uxoricidal
  5. uxoricide
  6. uxoricides
  7. uxorilocal
  8. uxorilocality
  9. uxorilocally
  10. uxorious
  11. uxoriously

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